http://www.whatsorceryisthis.com All that is mind-blowingly magical and amazing Tue, 08 Nov 2011 18:57:09 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.8 http://www.whatsorceryisthis.com/the-fading-photo-troxlers-fading/ http://www.whatsorceryisthis.com/the-fading-photo-troxlers-fading/#respond Tue, 08 Nov 2011 18:57:09 +0000 http://www.whatsorceryisthis.com/?p=29 Apparently due to this phenomenon called Troxler’s Fading, it is possible to stare at an image and have it disappear right before your eyes. Pick a point in the middle of the image below and stare at it. Wait a few seconds and it will start to fade away. Don’t move your eyes or it will come back; just observe in your peripheral vision.

]]> http://www.whatsorceryisthis.com/the-fading-photo-troxlers-fading/feed/ 0 http://www.whatsorceryisthis.com/turning-brain-visions-into-digital-imagery/ http://www.whatsorceryisthis.com/turning-brain-visions-into-digital-imagery/#respond Sat, 24 Sep 2011 23:07:45 +0000 http://www.whatsorceryisthis.com/?p=21 We have always left the idea of having a screen display our mind’s visuals to science fiction. Guess what? It’s still mostly science fiction, but we’re getting more and more towards making it science non-fiction. Scientists at UC Berkeley have found a way to take a person’s visual activity data and match it to a database of similar visuals. So it’s not quite projecting your mind, but it’s matching your mind to a library of possible visuals. With a big enough library, who knows. Part of me hopes I’m dead before this goes mainstream.

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